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  1. Column Mode and status bar informations

    Add support to Column Mode ("Shift + Alt" in Visual Studio) and show the Ln, Cols and Ch information in status bar like in Visual Studio.

    When I need do a substring in a line of text, I need use other editors (like Notepad++ or even Visual Studio himself) to know which position of chars.

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  2. Interop among queries (and languages) inside LINQPad

    For example, I have a query with code written in F#. Then I can reference this query in a C# query and use the functions that I wrote in the F# query. So, that is not necessary to open Visual Studio, create a F# project write the code then compile it to a .dll and then reference that assembly in a C# query in LINQPad,

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  3. Save a query as a '.cs. file with the Main() and using statements present.

    Add to the File Save As menu with an option to save a query as a '.cs. file with the Main() and using statements automatically inserted. This could otherwise be implemented as some king of Export functionality.

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  4. gui

    Integrated GUI builder

    If we had a GUI designer for win-forms (or similar) then small applications could be built. Things like combo-boxes, buttons, and standard controls with event handlers would be great.

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  5. As a driver developer, I want to include 16x16 icons that override the default ExplorerIcons.

    For example, if I am working on (hypothetical) HTTP/REST-based driver, I would l like icons that read GET, HEAD, POST, etc. next to the url path that would be displayed as the ExplorerItem text.

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  6. For SQL queries that do an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, show the number of rows that are affected.

    For SQL queries that do an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, show the number of rows that are affected, like it does in SQL Server Management Studio.

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  7. make LINQPad.UI.ExplorerGridInternal.SaveChangesAdapter public and extensible

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  8. Possibility to copy/paste the error message, when a connection to a dbcontext is unsuccessful

    Possibility to copy/paste the error message, when a connection to a dbcontext is unsuccessful

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  9. Make it see the files in Skydrive folder that are not fully downloaded yet and are presently only the metadata.

    I use SkyDrive to keep my queries synced between various devices but I noticed on Windows 8.1 that it does not show them unless I have "opened" them locally even though the "stub" of the file shows in the directory. It would be nice if LINQPad would show them all and even open them in a way compatible with SkyDrive if I selected one that was not yet fully downloaded.

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  10. Support export of query results to JSON

    I want to create a JSON file for use as part of a simple web prototyping exercise. LinqPAD is perfect for accessing the data from my DB in just the shape I need, however I cannot get it out as JSON very easily.

    I don't really care what the schema is, because I can adapt my JavaScript to work with whatever is returned.

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  11. In IL plz show Method signatures and return types

    Current if there are overloads of methods, we cannot distinguish them from IL. Please learn from other tools e.g. ILSPY and show method signatures (parameter types) and return types.

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  12. Update fsc.exe search paths for VS 2013.

    It's now at:

    %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\F#\3.1\Framework\v4.0

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  13. LinqPad integration into Excel

    A really nice feature would be an integration of LinqPad into Excel, a bit like Tsunami. I presume that it shouldn't be too difficult to implement with ExcelDna.

    What would be really nice is features like being able to run Linq query against excel ranges, and if possible (like in F#) having auto-complete with column names.

    LinqPad to excel (making functions available as udf in excel) is also nice but I think less useful.

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  14. VB Syntax Auto format

    It would be great to have VB syntax auto formatting like in Visual Studio. VB is a case insensitive language (which is what makes it so appealing to lazy people like me) and I often use the syntax auto-formatting when I type as a quick check that I wrote the right syntax.

    ex: I type:
    dim V as double
    v = 10

    and it becomes
    Dim V as Double
    V = 10

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  15. Export to CSV ..next to Excel

    I just found "export to CSV", but it was not very intuitive having to switch to grid view, when in big letters there is a Export button right next to the results. The inverse is also true, in grid view there is access to CSV, but not Ecel, Word, Html.

    Could you please add the shorcuts ?

    18 votes
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  16. Step by step wizard to create linq query

    Most of the times Pivot tables are used for Data Visualization/Graph. Would like to see wizard that can help you creating pivot table.

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  17. Shortcut for primary key

    I mostly find that I need to filter by the primary key id. It would be handy to have a quick way of inserting the primary id name.

    Perhaps a shortcut key, or perhaps even just putting the primary id at the top of the drop down autocomplete.

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  18. Allow for Full Screen

    I commonly use the full screen option in VS and getting rid of all the superfluous toolbars/menus/tabs/ etc would be helpful

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  19. Show correct line-numbers in stack-traces

    The line-numbers in a strack-trace counts from the top of the produced .cs file. This includes the using-statements, and first few lines of the UserQuery class definition. The user has no way of knowing how many such lines there are, so the line-numbers would be almost useless.

    To remedy this, LINQPad could add #line-directives

    #line 1 "UserQuery" // Just before the user-code
#line default // Just after the user-code.

    Manually adding #line-directives results in the exception-indicators being placed on wrong lines, but the stack-traces are more useful.

    Read more:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/34dk387t.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/szc67b5s.aspx
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233195.aspx

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  20. Dump collections as each item is processed

    Every so often, I would be running a long running query that yields many results. And every once in a while, when dumping the results, there is a failure because of some exception (e.g., OutOfMemoryException, NullReferenceException, etc.) and you never see any of the results because of that. The dump method only writes to the results until the entire collection has been processed and renders them all at once.

    It would be nice if LINQPad would dump each item as the collection was being processed so in the event of a failure, we could see the results that have been…

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